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Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Flynn, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, is Chairman of the Board and Senior Advisor to Maxeler Technologies. Previously, he worked at IBM in the areas of computer organization and design. His best-known technical work includes the SIMD/MIMD classification of computer organization, and the first detailed discussion of superscalar design. Professor Flynn is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM.Wayne Luk is Professor of Computer Engineering in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he teaches computer architecture and custom computing. He leads the Computer Systems Section as well as the Custom Computing Research Group, which is currently focusing on theory and practice of reconfigurable systems and their design automation. He has worked with many companies including Altera, J.P. Morgan, Nokia, Sharp, Sony, and Xilinx. Professor Luk is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the BCS. Klappentext A hands-on primer that bridges the gap between computer system design and system-on-chip architectureAs computer systems continue to evolve, the next generation of designers will need to focus less on processors and memories and more on the elements of a system tailored to particular applications. They must understand how to make system-level tradeoffs that optimize cost, performance, and other attributes in order to meet application requirements. To address these needs, this text presents a new, hardware-oriented approach to computer system design, particularly for System-on-Chip (SOC).Written by leading researchers in computer engineering, the book provides the fundamentals necessary to develop SOC solutions as well as analytical techniques that are relevant to a wide range of architectures and applications. Taking a high-level systems-centric view, it addresses issues that define the design space and describes in detail the three basic elements of SOC--processor, memory, and interconnect.To broaden SOC applicability while reducing cost, one can adopt a common hardware platform that can be customized to improve efficiency for specific applications. This book covers different customization technologies for SOC, particularly those based on configurability; it also reveals when customizing is not advisable. Various applications that illustrate the opportunities and system-level trade-offs in SOC design are described, along with explanations of how some of the techniques described in earlier chapters can be applied. Finally, future challenges for system design and SOC possibilities are explored, including autonomous system on a chip and self-optimization and self-verification before and after design deployment.Complete with problem sets at the end of each chapter as well as a companion website, Computer System Design: System-on-Chip is written for graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as for system design professionals, SOC engineers, and computer scientists. Zusammenfassung This book provides a new treatment of computer system design, particularly for System-on-Chip (SOC). It introduces the fundamental technologies that form the basic material necessary to understand and to start analyzing and developing SOC solutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xiii List of Abbreviations and Acronyms xvii 1 Introduction to the Systems Approach 1 1.1 System Architecture: An Overview 1 1.2 Components of the System: Processors, Memories, and Interconnects 2 1.3 Hardware and Software: Programmability Versus Performance 5 1.4 Processor Architectures 7 1.4.1 Processor: A Functional View 8 1.4.2 Processor: An Architectural View 9 1.5 Memory and Addressing 19 1.5.1 SOC Memory Examples 20 1.5.2 Addressing: The Architecture of Memory 21 1.5.3 Memory for SOC Oper...
